Dusty Dragon

Rodrigo is so fed up with the jungle's random hostilities that he shrug. "if they are really friendly, great. If they are not, it's just another near disaster and we'll kill half of them." He rubbed his eyebrows and added "What I mean is that we can't pass up the rare kindness because of fear of treachery/aggression. We know we can deal with the latter"

Adventurer

I put the reason for them to return for this reason. But going into the village has another benefit. You might be able to convince them to give you new canoes instead of going with rafts. Since there was a fight right now, how about we (you) take the short rest while tabaxi stand guard? We're fairly safe on the island, right? We can discuss it.

That said, it will be the shortest spirit quest in history if I return with them half a day after starting

Explorer

Adventurer

The village is secret enough that the tabaxi know to take strangers through a circuitous tricky route that would be more difficult to replicate and easy for the villagers to defend, rather than the most direct hunting route, but not so secret that anyone will be offended by the strangers' arrival.